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AmericanA to Z: Terry Allen

January 21, 2019 Paul Kerr 0
Today we’re re-starting a series we got going with a while ago before it abruptly came to a halt. Our favourite not so well known artists, going through the alphabet, week by week, starting this week […]
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Walking the trail of tears with Buffalo Blood

January 17, 2019 Paul Kerr 0
Buffalo Blood is an international film and music collaboration which addresses the very current issues of displacement, immigration, refugees and the power of the human spirit through revisiting the lands, myths and histories of America’s Native […]
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Celtic Connections kicks off this week

January 15, 2019 Paul Kerr 0
Glasgow’s annual celebration of roots and traditional music from around the globe opens for business this Thursday and then proceeds for the next three weeks with over 300 events scheduled to take place. Always a highlight […]
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Melody Guy “Dry The Rivers” (MFG Records, 2019)

January 14, 2019 Paul Kerr 1
A Nashville based singer songwriter who racks up the miles as she travels the country playing gigs here, there and everywhere, Melody Guy proves to be an attractive listen on this tenth album of hers which […]
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Various Artists “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs – Original Soundtrack” (Milan Records, 2018)

December 21, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
If you haven’t yet seen the latest Coen Brothers effort, ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’, then you’re in for a treat. Released through Netflix (and if you haven’t got access to Netflix then surely someone you […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Kim Richey Songs

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Kim Richey is one of those unsung heroes of americana who have been around for ages, releasing an album every few years without huge fanfare, but whose work within the industry, working with higher-profile musicians, has […]
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Mike Richmond “Without An Audience”

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40 years on and we have the debut solo album by musical legend Mike Richmond, co-founder of the lamented Love Tractor, leading lights of the Athens, GA music scene. This is a great month for fans […]
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Rodney Crowell to release ‘lost album’ “Then Again” next month

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Rodney Crowell has announced the release of an album which many fans thought would never see the light of day, Then Again which arrives on 26th June 2026 via New West Records. The 10-track set was […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Eric Hagen “Revival”

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‘Revival’ is an album to be savored for its beauty and its pain. Eric Hagen’s songs are like Edward Hopper’s paintings. They invoke alienation and pain in ways that are both disturbing and beautiful.  As American […]
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Darling West “Can’t Help It” – Listen

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The warm rich tones of Darling West were christened ‘Cosmic Folk’ by no lesser being than Lucinda Williams, with whom the Norwegian duo were sharing a stage.  And that cosmic theme carries forward onto their latest […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: John Prine “Some Humans Ain’t Human”

January 29, 2021 0
So this week we learned the depressing news that the UK covid-19 death toll has passed now some 100,000. You may be asking yourself why. That we can’t answer but we are drawn to this extract […]

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